Check out these great blogs

Teacher blogs are one of the best sources of information on the web. While there are hundreds of excellent teacher blogs out there, I can't possibly read them all. Yesterday, I chose to share Richard Byrne's Free Technology for Teachers blog so today I am sharing posts from three more of my favorite teacher created blogs.

First up is Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day. Mr. Ferlazzo is an ESL teacher from California who writes about a wide variety of education topics. He not only shares great web resources, he posts articles and videos from a wide range of topics including common core standards, education policy, and even the tragdy in Newtown, Connecticut. In this post, Mr. Ferlazzo shares articles that supports the great things being done in American schools.

The second blog is the Ed Tech Toolbox by Greg Swanson of  Eastwood, Australia. Mr. Swanson shares useful technology tips that anyone can use. This post is extremely handy because it identifies a large collection of useful resources and lists them by task.

Finally, there is the Cool Cat Teacher blog by Vicki Davis, a teacher from Georgia. Her blog is swimming with useful information for anyone in the education business. In this post, Ms. Davis shares how to implement QR codes into the classroom. If you aren't sure what a QR code is, read her post and you'll wonder no more.

Website hoarding

I have a confession. I am a website hoarder. I am addicted to finding new and useful websites but the problem is that I don't have time to explore them all so I store them in my Evernote account to view at a future date. As of this post, I have 659 "notes", which includes some infographics and blog posts but the majority are websites that I intend to use someday. The purpose of this post isn't for therapy reason but to explain how easy it is to find great websites.

I began my website hoarding addiction with Delicious. I would search the "favorited" websites of other users and was amazed at how easy it was to locate websites that interested me. The next tool I discovered was Stumble Upon. I would spend hours "stumbling" the web and I came across many amazing pictures, blogs, and websites. One site I "stumbled on" was Make Use Of which features a "Daily Cool websites" section. I subscribed to this feature and began to get  recommendation sent to my email. Later, a coworker of mine introduced me to Diigo Education which I have subscribed to and I get excellent resources shared by other educators.

Along the way I have discovered a wide array of blogs such as Richard Byrne's Free Technology for Teachers, and Larry Ferlazzo's Website of the Day to name just two. Occasionally, I will get time to seriously browse some web sites but for the most part my collections keeps growing. My latest source for website collecting has been Twitter. Now all the websites I used to visit are sending their discoveries to me  via Twitter. It makes being a website hoarder so much easier.

I don't recommend anyone become a website collector like me but if you are interested in finding new resources on the web don't bother with Google. Try one of the sites I recommended above and you be amazed at how much great stuff is out there.